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(N0 ModeL) P. W. GROGKER.

' ICE CREAM BOX.

Patented Apr. 7, 188-5.

INVENTOR 2764262202: Wflmzkw;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ICE-CREAM Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,129, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed March '7, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F. W. CROOKER, of Macedon, Wayne county, State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Cream Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

Ice-cream boxes as heretofore made have been inadequate, for the reason that it has always become necessary, in order to eat the [0 cream, to go to the trouble and extra expense of procuring plates to be washed and put away.

It is the object of my invention to avoid this unnecessary trouble and expense by man ufacturing a box of the ordinary heavy paper commonly used in such boxes, and attaching thereto or forming out of the body material small catches or loops of sufficient stiffness to hold a spoon, the box being provided with a deep cover, which can be used in lieu of a plate. In case of sufficient cream for two, the same can be divided and one can eat from the cover and the other eat from the body of the box. Said box may have, in case of quart-boxes, a partition, so as to be used for two kinds of cream. The partition need not be used in pint-boxes unless desired. In the quart-box the partition is made so as to fit the inside of the box snugly and be ca- 6 pable of being shoved up against one end of attachment can be placed upon opposite sides or opposite ends of the box and cover-one pair on each side or end. In each pair of clips is to be placed one spoon, the spoon being put in bowl upward, so as to hold on the cover and prevent any accidental displacement of the same. After using the box and spoon, the same can be thrown away, thereby avoiding any further trouble.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan riew of the box closed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line at m, Fig. 1.

A is the box proper,which is made of frustum shape so as to be nested. B is the cover, made similar in shape and for the same purpose as the bodynamely, nesting-and sufficiently deep 'to be used in the manner hereinbefore mentioned. Gis the spoon. O G are the catches or loops, so placed upon the body and cover of the box as to hold, in connection with the spoon, said body and cover together, as described. D is the handle, made of ribbon or any other inexpensive material, and attached to the body of the box below the point where the cover comes when on. E is the'partition, which is made of heavy paper and used as described.

The same invention can be applied to oyster-v boxes by attaching a papier-mach fork or a fork of other cheap material in substantially the same manner, in which case the partition would not be needed.

What I claim is- 1. An icecream box composed of the body or base A, cover B, handle D, and catches or loops 0 G, for the purpose shown and described.

2. In combination with an ice-cream box composed of the body or base A, cover B, handle D, catches or loops 0 G, the papiermach spoon, substantially as shown and described.

FREDERICK \V. CROGKER.

\Vitnesses:

N. L. HOLMES, G. WILLIAMS. 

